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Mediaevalia Lovaniensia - Series 1/Studia Between Text and Tradition
Pietro d’Abano and the reception of pseudo-Aristotle’s problemata physica in the Middle Ages
2016 || Paperback || Pieter de Leemans e.a. || Leuven University Press
New insights into Pietro d'Abano's unique approach to translations.
The commentary of the Italian physician and philosopher Pietro d'Abano on Bartholomew of Messina's Latin translation of Pseudo-Aristotle's Problemata Physica, published in 1310, constitutes an important historical source. In a section of the corpus Aristotelicum that was not part of the standard curriculum at the medieval university, the commentary of Pietro d'Abano investigates the complex relationship between text, translat...
Plutarchea Hypomnemata Plutarch’s science of natural problems
2016 || Hardcover || Michiel Meeusen || Leuven University Press
The role of natural science in the Roman Imperial Era.
In his Quaestiones naturales, Plutarch unmistakeably demonstrates a huge interest in the world of natural phenomena. The work of this famous intellectual and philosopher from Chaeronea consists of forty-one natural problems that address a wide variety of questions, sometimes rather peculiar ones, and answers pertaining to ancient Greek physics, including problems related to the fields of zoology, botany, meteorology and their respective s...